Subj : Z80 emulated games
To   : Brian Rogers
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Tue Jul 20 2021 08:27 pm

 Re: Z80 emulated games
 By: Brian Rogers to Rob Swindell on Tue Jul 20 2021 07:12 pm

> Just out of curiosity, is there a way to get Z80 emulated stuff to run as
> a door under Sychronet? I have a copy of Zork that runs under my URONode
> Packet Radio node but I can't think of how Synchronet could handle this.
> Any idea?

The Zork games are not actually Z80 programs, but rather ZMachine binaries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine

They can be run in native Z-Machine environments for modern OSes and interface (yes) with Synchronet users.
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